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Wednesday, 6 January 2016

A-Force #1 Review

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Of the many, many tie-ins spun out of Secret Wars last year, A-Force was definitely a title that stood apart. Its pitch perfect cast of characters and self-contained premise lead to all manner of adventures, making the team's transition over to the new Marvel Universe proper an exciting proposition. At last that update is here, and while the return of creators G. Willow Wilson and Jorge Molina again provides a certain amount of magic, the second look at Marvel's premiere heroines doesn't entirely go the distance.

One of the best things about the original A-Force was just how little it was beholden to the Secret Wars events at large. The connections were there, sure, but overall the book was primarily focused on its characters and how they worked together. Perhaps on some level, this new #1 is out to do the same. Writer Wilson has a tough task in ensuring that the connections made in the original series carry over into the new one, and rather than try and reinvent the wheel she instead decides to reshape it. She does so by putting Singularity, the childlike powerhouse new to Secret Wars, front and center, as she looks to reconnect with the friends lost in the calamity that followed. Find them she does, but much like every other character not possessing of grander knowledge of the events previously transpired, her friends haven't a clue who she is, or whether they're truly friends at all.

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